The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
PRAYER Or: PROPHECYg
A Remarkable Conversation with
Lincoln.

I The conservative and well-timed ar
ticle concerning presidential candidates
by the Rev. DR.. r. NJ. Hatfield in a
recent issue of the Journal, calls to my
mind most remarkable passage found
in book lately published by Father
Chiniquy, an ex-priest of Rome. but
Presbyterian minister since 1860.
Father Chiniquy was an intimate friend
of President Lincoln, who was his
lawyer, and he has spent twelve years
of his life IN investigating the mysteri-
GUS and secret circumstances connected
with the horrible crime which deprived
the country of her greatest hero, and
changed her joys of our national
triumph in war into unspeakable de-
ISOLATION the 14th day April, 1865.
And what is the result of that inves-
tigation? Every American citizen
should read the facts collated by Father
Chiniquy and judge for himself. He
has collected remarkable array of facts
on the assassination of the President
and his Cabinet. He follows Booth and
Surratt, Harold and Payne from the
act in the tragedy. He publishes many
facts never before given to the public.
He shows by evidence which cannot be
controverted, by afidavits of living
witnesses, that the very day of the as
sassination. in st. Joseph, Mimi, at 6
O'Clock in the evening, it was publicly
talked of that Secretary ofssState Seward
and President Lincoln had just been
assassinated. At that tine there were
no railroad lines nearer than forty miles,
nor any telegraph offices nearer than
eighty miles from st. Joseph. 1t would
make This article too long to follow the
evidence which Father Chiniouy has
gathered and lately published concern
ing the awful crime of Booth, showing
how it was known and publicly talked
of in remote village in Minnesota
three and one-half hours before it oc-
cured in Washington.
The last meeting Father Chiniquy
had with President Lincoln was June
8, 1864. He told Father Chiniquy that
he would not live Ito eat the fruits of
that peace for which am longing with
such an unspeakable desire" There
is still, but solemn voice." said the
President, which tells me that l will
see those things only from long dis
lance, and that will be amon5 the
dead when the nation, which God
granted me to lead through those awful
trials, will cross the Jordan and dwell
in that land of promise, where peace,
industry, happiness and liberty will
make every one happy"
At the close of this interview Presi-
dent Lincoln uttered this remarkable
prophecy or prayer, which can be
placed among the most sublime words |
ever fallen from mans lips: |
"But just as the Lord heard no muir !
m ur from the lips of Moses when He told |
him that he had to die before crossing
the Jordan, for the sins of his people, )
so l hope and pray that He will hear
no murmur from me when fall for my
nations sake. The only two favors
ask of the Lord are: First, that l may |
die for the sacred cause in which | am |
engaged, and while am the standard |
bearer of the rights and liberties of my
country. The second favor that flask |
from God is, that my dear son Robert, |
wher l am gone, will be one of those |
who shall lift up that flag of liberty
which shall cover my tomb, and carry |
it with honor and fidelity to the end of
his life, as his father did, surrounded by |
the millions who will be called with him |
70 fight and die for the defense aud /!
honor of our country"
Has that sublime prayer been heard |
in heaven, and is it about to be |
answered among men? Public senti-
ment is unmistakably pointing that
way. Will Robert Lincoln be chosen
by God to lift up the flag of liberty from
his msrtyred fathers tomb to carry it |
at the head of the nation? Millions of
Americas voters answer. "He shall. "-j
Judge Stephen B. Moore, of Kan-I
kakee, Ill.